Device for pressing cigar-molds.



P. M. SHIRLEY. DEVICE FOR PRESSING CIGAR MOLDS. APPLICATION IILBD JAN. 27, 1913.

1,076,1 63. Patented Oct. 21, 1913.

WITNESSES jifTOR UMTED STATES PATENT GFFIQE.

FREDERICK M. SHIRLEY, OF WARREN, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO L. J. BETTS AND G. H. BETTS, BOTH OF WARREN, PENNSYLVANIA.

DEVICE FOR PRESSING CIGAR-MOLDS.

To a7 Z whom t may concern Be it known that I, FitnonaioirM. SHIR- LEY, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Warren, in the county of W arren and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improve.

ments in Devices for Pressing Cigar-Molds, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to pressers and particularly to devices for pressing cigar molds, or it may be used in other connections, especially where the pressure is to be applied and the press is to be left standing in operative position to allow the articles pressed to acquire permanent shape.-

An object of this invention is to provide novel means for operating a presser head or follower a predetermined distance, means being provided for arresting the operating means when said predetermined distance has been attained and furthermore to provide means in such relation to the stopping means that the parts will be retained in the position to which they have been moved at the time they are arrested.

A still further object of this invention is to provide adjustable means operating in conjunction with the press operating mechanism whereby the press can be made to accommodate itself to one or a plurality of cigar molds so that it will work with equal facility, regardless of a number of molds, within predetermined bounds.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the details of construction and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification wherein like characters denote corresponding parts in the several views, and in which Figure 1 is a View in elevation showing a press embodying the invention; Fig. 2 illustrates a top plan thereof; Fig. 3 illustrates a perspective view of an operating lever and parts carried thereby, in an inverted position; and Fig. 4 illustrates a perspective view of a fragment of the follower with the cam and parts associated therewith applied thereto.

In these drawings 5 denotes a base having posts 6 for supporting the molds and rods Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 27, 1913.

Patented Oct. 21,1913.

SerialNo. 744,406.

7 carried by plates 8 attached to the base 5 which rods 7 are threaded to engage the nuts 9. A cross head 10 is apertured to receive the rods 7 and said cross head is adjusted with relation to the base 5 by means of the nuts 9 in order that the said cross head may be supported in different positions of adjustment. A presser plate or follower 11 has attached to it a guiding rod 12 which extends through an aperture 13 in the cross head, the said guiding rod having its upper end threaded for the rece tion of a nut 14 between which nut an the cross head, there is a spring 15 which operates for supporting the follower and holding it normally in an elevated position. The upper surface of the follower 11 contains a cam with two surfaces 16 and 17 oppositely pitched and terminating in shoulders 18 and 19 respectively, which are diametrically opposite each other, it being understood that the guiding rod 12 which is not shown in Fig. 4 stands in the center 2 or at points between the two cam surfaces 16 and 17. Associated with the shoulder 19 is a lug'20 which is adapted to engage the means for operating the follower when said means has reached the limit of its movement for depressing the follower, as will be presently explained. An operating lever 21 has a boss 22 on its upper surface which bears against the cross head 10 and a boss 23 on its lower surface having lugs 2 1 and 25 which are adapted to engage the cam surfaces 16 and 17 respectively and to ride over said cam surfaces when the operating lever is oscillated, it being understood that the movement of the said lever 21- causes a depression of the follower 11 so long as the operating lever is moved in one direction.

It is the purpose of the inventor to so locate the lug 25 and the lug 20 as to cause them to engage when the lever 21 has been moved in one direction a predetermined distance, at which time the said lugs 24 and 25 engage the shoulders 18 and 19 respectively, in which position, the lever is allowed to stand so long as the material is to be pressed. When it is desired to elevate the follower, the lever is moved to disengage the shoulders 24 and 25 from the shoulders 18 and 19 so that the parts are returned to the position shown in Fig. 1, it being understood that the spring 15 will serve to elevate the follower and retain the cams in operative relation to the lugs of the operating lever so that the operation may be repeated.

I clairn a In a press, a base, a cross head adjustably supported above the base, said cross head having an aperture interinediately its length, a follower having a guide rod movable through the aperture of the cross heaid' means associated with the guide rod for yieldi'ngly supportii'i'g the follower, a twosnrface cam on the follower, a lever having 5 members adapted to ride on said ealn surfaces, shoulders associated with the cams, a lever for operating the said cams, means for limiting the movement of the lever, and

lugs on the lever for engaging the cams,

and shoulders for operating the follower and for retaining it in adjusted position.

In testimony whereof, I affix in signature in the presence of two witnesses.

FRED. M. SHIRLEY. YVitnesses GEORGE H. BE'rTs, E. H. Bes'r nmm Qlbfifs of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents Washington, D1 0. 

